Shaquille O’Neal Shares Kobe Bryant’s “Vodka Martinis” Video That Could Reduce Nostalgic Lakers Fans to Tears

Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant formed a formidable duo at Los Angeles Lakers in the late 90s. They helped the Los Angeles Lakers win a three-peat in the early 2000s. However, despite such incredible chemistry on the court, they weren’t the best of friends off the court. It led to Shaq leaving the Lakers for Miami Heat. However, as the years passed, they got closer and became good friends. Recently, Shaq shared a hilarious Kobe Bryant advertisement on his social media that would melt Lakers fans’ hearts.

The news of Kobe Bryant‘s unfortunate death in 2020 devastated Shaq. The duo had reconciled long back and were good friends by then. Moreover, Shaq called Kobe his family. Even Kobe had admitted that they are good friends now and everything was a ‘learning experience’.

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Shaquille O’Neal only has good things to share about Kobe now. Recently he shared a video of an ESPN advertisement featuring Kobe Bryant and Jalen Rose. It was quite heart-melting for fans to get to see Kobe again on the screen.

Shaquille O’Neal shares Kobe Bryant’s commercial on Instagram

Shaq took to Instagram to share the Kobe Bryant commercial on his story. It was a hilarious video of Kobe trolling Jalen Rose. In the video, a waiter approaches Kobe at a bar when he is seen talking to Jalen Rose and asks for his order.

To this Kobe replies, “Yeah, I’ll have a vodka martini.”

The waiter then asks Kobe about the number of olives he would like to have. To this Kobe replied “81” while making intense eye-contact with Jalen Rose.

Kobe then smiled and said, “Nah, man, I’m just playing. Just two. It was a joke for him (Jalen Rose). He gets it.”

It was a hilarious video with Kobe referring to the 81 points he scored against Jalen Rose’s Toronto Raptors. Fans would surely love the video. Shaq also shared a video of him laughing for 60 seconds on ‘NBA on TNT’.

Kobe Bryant brutally trolled Jalen Rose in an old ESPN commercial

Jalen Rose and Kobe shot an ESPN commercial back in 2017. The commercial was for the ESPN series called ‘Jalen vs. Everybody’. Kobe Bryant brutally trolled Jalen Rose, referring to the 81 points he scored against the Toronto Raptors in 2006.

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Los Angeles Lakers faced Jalen Rose’s Toronto Raptors in January 2006. Kobe scored 81 points in that game, leading the Lakers to a 122-104 win in LA. It was a hilarious commercial from ESPN and Kobe really bossed the act.